"despite his credentials, books, recordings, and reputation, he was still just an outside agitator and 'nigger lover'. I'm not talking about his field trips with his dad in the thirties......this is in 1959-1960!"

It shouldn't surprise you that such attitudes exisisted in 1959-1960. The Civil Rights movement was underway, but there'd be many more years of singing "We Shall Overcome" before attitudes and laws changed. Most forms of racial segregation were still legal, and still enforced, in most of the South in 1959-1960.

Guy